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A New Theory that Explains the Mysteries of Life with Dr. Neil Theise
Smart People Podcast
The Scale Invariance of Fractals
The thing about fractals that makes them so beautiful and so interesting is no matter how far in you go, they always look the same. The reason a lot of people have seen the tree and the lung fractal is because mathematically, when you create a structure like this, it has to follow these rules. It's not infinite, but the mathematical expressions of fractals are infinite. Just keep going and it just keeps giving you the same stuff. Now that applies to complexity in part because remember I said that you know 20 ants can make an ant colony, 200 ants, 2000 ants,. Same principles apply in part because it's related to chaos.
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